Friday, May 16, 2014

I love creating new things and this 8x8 box with 4 + scrapbooks makes a great gift. I have a young friend at work who is getting married next weekend and his sweetheart is just getting into card making and scrapbooking. They have asked for my help and advice a couple of times so I know that this will make a great wedding gift.

This scrapbook box is actually a gift that keeps on giving because I can help them crop and arrange their pictures giving me another opportunity to teach. I (mostly) followed a tutorial from Kathy Orta. This woman is amazing and comes up with the most wonderful projects. Kathy's original box is 6x6 but I wanted my young couple to be able to add 4x6 photos directly into the album. I adjusted the size of the box to be 8x8 allowing for larger scrapbook albums.

The albums are lifted out of the box by pulling on the charms that I made from various sources - my local Scrapbook Central store and the bead shop.

The scrapbooks are loosely male and female due to my paper and color choices. Two have more masculine colors from Graphic 45 A Proper Gentlemen and Typography collections. The two feminine albums use KaiserKraft English Rose collection. Both albums have the same design.

Here are three pages from the feminine album.

And here are a few pages from the male version:

Every page has extra tags for more photos and there are lots of spaces for journalling about their new life together.

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Today I have the pleasure of being the Monday Hostess over at Digital Delights!I made a little booklet/scrapbook for my grandson Austin for his upcoming birthday. This booklet is made with lots of really cute characters from the new Digital Delights builder series.

The booklet pages are made using the We R Memories Keeper Envelop Punch Board. One flap is glued down to form a pocket and the other side flap is used to insert into the next envelop. You can find a number of YouTube videos on this construction method.

The only thing I did different was to fold the booklet accordion style.

This is the back where I will put pictures of Austin with BIG trucks.

The inside of the booklet is not quite a story. I wrote a few words that he should be able to read to accompany each Digital Delights image.

The names of the characters perfectly fits my family. One son is Brian and of course my name is Nancy.

The only name I fudged was Tool Time Donald who turns out to be Uncle Evan!

Because these pages are made into envelopes I can fit little tags inside to hold more pictures.

This is going to make a great little gift for my grandson and was very easy to do with pre-colored images from Digital Delights.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

My grandson Austin has a birthday coming up and I made him a card using the new Digital Delights builder series images.

Builder Brian makes into a great card for a boy! I started with road paper from Cosmo Cricket and added a strip of paper from the Construction Digital Papers. The birthday sign and cones come from the accessory pack.

Be sure and take a look at what the wonderful Design Team has come up with for your inspiration. And then hop over to the Delightful Challenges site and check out this week's challenge.Have a Great Day!NancyD

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A Little About Me

I love crafting of all kinds, especially working with paper and wool. I love learning new things and like to try different techniques.
I fell in love with Zentangle drawing and became a certified Zentangle teacher in November 2013. You will find information about Zentangle classes and products here.
Another of my passions is scrapbooking and you will see all my new projects as well as information about classes and tutorials on this blog.
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